Thoughts on ACME Electric Tow Dolly?
I have been thinking about purchasing a tow dolly to take our 2013 VW GTI with us during road trips (actual car in the picture). I went to a local camping world yesterday and found a parked RV with th...
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mowermech wrote:
Again, the front wheels of the towed vehicle are tied to the dolly. Tied very tightly, in fact. They can not turn side to side! they can not steer the dolly!
Yes, the video shows the steering wheel of the towed vehicle moving. HOW is it moving? What is twisting or bending under the vehicle to allow the steering wheel to move?
The video does NOT show the dolly wheels or the towed vehicle wheels turning, only the steering wheel. Until I see the vehicle front wheels steering the dolly, or the dolly wheels actually steering, I simply do not and can not believe what the video is showing and the narrator is saying!
With the wheels tied to the dolly, they are no longer the pivot point for the car steering axis, instead the car itself pivots or moves on its steering axis as the front wheels of the car remain fixed and track with the dolly. I believe the narrator in the video uses the term 'inverted" to describe the steering geometry in play here.
